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Synonyms for deceive
dɪˈsivde·ceive

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.3 / 6 votes

  1. deceive

    Synonyms:
    trick, cheat, beguile, delude, gull, dupe, take in, over reach, mislead, betray, ensnare, entrap, circumvent

    Antonyms:
    enlighten, advise, illumine, guide, disabuse, undeceive, deliver

Princeton's WordNet4.5 / 2 votes

  1. deceive, lead on, delude, cozenverb

    be false to; be dishonest with

    Synonyms:
    betray, lead astray, cozen, lead on, delude

    Antonyms:
    undeceive

  2. deceive, betray, lead astrayverb

    cause someone to believe an untruth

    "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house"

    Synonyms:
    cuckold, cheat on, lead astray, misguide, grass, bewray, delude, give away, lead on, betray, shit, stag, shop, cozen, mislead, misdirect, wander, rat, cheat, denounce, tell on, snitch, sell, fail, lead off

    Antonyms:
    undeceive

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. truthful

    telling the truth

    Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  
  2. beguile

    beguile second meaning is cheating

    Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.7 / 3 votes

  1. deceiveverb

    Synonyms:
    delude, beguile, mislead, gull, impose upon, dupe, circumvent, hoodwink, bamboozle

    Antonyms:
    undeceive, disillusionize, disabuse

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "deceive":

    mislead, delude, fool, cheat, hoodwink, disappoint, defraud

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#232391misdirect

How to use deceive in a sentence?

  1. Bernard Baruch:

    Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

  2. Vilhjalmur Stefansson:

    What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

  3. Shlomo Touboul:

    The founders sat together with people from the 8200 Unit and they said, ‘Everyone’s focusing on the malware, but instead of focusing on that, step backward one step and look at the people who create the malware,’ the attacker has a weakness, like every human being. We thought about the attack from their point of view -- how they think, behave and act. We have a very good understanding of how they act so we know how to deceive them in their own territory.

  4. Dawn Laguens:

    The latest tape has at least 20 substantial and unexplained edits. Previous tapes released by this extremist group were heavily edited in order to distort what the people on the tapes actually said, these videos are intended to shock and deceive the public. For example, one video was edited to make it look like a doctor said she would.

  5. Mark Twain:

    When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.


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